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Seeing through Boundaries: East and West in the World of Alighiero e Boetti
November 13, 2008
12:30 p.m.
This lecture considers the work of Italian artist Alighiero Boetti, who added the word "e"—Italian for "and"—to his name in the early 1970s after the first of his numerous trips to Kabul, Afghanistan, which became his second home. The lecture focuses on the themes of the double, the unity of opposites, the notion of the "other" in oneself, and the layering of western and eastern cultural references.
Lecturer Anna Mecugni (PhD candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York) is writing her dissertation on Alighiero Boetti and other Italian artists who traveled east in the 1970s.
Brown Bag Lunch Lectures (41)
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The Concrete and Neo-Concrete Movements in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela
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Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg
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Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg: Q&A
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Popular Favorites and Critical Disdain: From Pavel Tchelitchew's Hide-and-Seek to Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World
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Malevich and Tatlin: The Creative Dialogue of the Leaders of the Russian Avant-Garde
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What Cézanne Saw: Geometry and the Birth of Modern Painting
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German Zero, Dutch Nul, and Italian Azimuth: European Geometric Tendencies and the Impact of the Cold War
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A Visit to Venice: Think with the Senses/Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense
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Art Spiegelman, Rachel Whiteread, Christian Boltanski, and Others Remember the Holocaust
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Georges Seurat: The Drawings
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An Expanding Universe: The Work of Anselm Kiefer
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A Tribute to Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
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From Space to Environment: The Origins and Development of Japanese Kankyo
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The Futurist Exhibitions at the Venice Biennale under Fascism, 1928–42
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Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
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documenta 12: Exhibiting Education
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Andy Warhol: Commerce and Pop, 1950–68
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Design and the Elastic Mind
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The History of Public Art at Rockefeller Center
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Dalí: Painting and Film. A Preview
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A User's Guide to the Architecture of the Beijing Olympics
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Take your time: Olafur Eliasson
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Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
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Kirchner and the Berlin Street.
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Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
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At the Center and at the Edge: The Contemporary Artist's Book
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Art and Dementia
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Seeing through Boundaries: East and West in the World of Alighiero e Boetti
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Homage to New York: Jean Tinguely's Destructive Art
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The Art Lending Service: Building an Audience for Modern Art
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Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937
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From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: The High Rise and Decline of Low-Income Housing in America
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Contemporary Wunderkammern: Collecting and Museums as Art
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Joan Miró's Influence on Graphic Design
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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave
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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Chagall’s Nomadic Modernism
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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: The Gypsy Modernists: Viennese Architecture and Design Between the Two World Wars
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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Sol LeWitt
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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in New York
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